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English
Dog on a leash.
Surf leash.
Etymology
From Middle English leesshe , leysche , lesshe , a variant of more original lease , from Middle English lees , leese , leece , lese , from Old French lesse (modern French laisse ), from Latin laxa ( “ thong, a loose cord ” ) , feminine form of laxus ( “ loose ” ) ; compare lax . Doublet of laisse .
Pronunciation
Noun
leash (plural leashes )
A strap , cord or rope with which to restrain an animal , often a dog .
Synonym: lead
1922 , F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned :A stout woman upholstered in velvet, her flabby cheeks too much massaged, swirled by with her poodle straining at its leash
c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare , “The Tragedy of Coriolanus ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio ), London: Isaac Iaggard , and Ed Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , :like a fawning greyhound in the leash
( obsolete ) A brace and a half; a tierce .
( obsolete ) A set of three animals (especially greyhounds , foxes , bucks , and hares ;)
( obsolete ) A group of three.
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare , “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio ), London: Isaac Iaggard , and Ed Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals) :Sirrah , I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by their Christian names, as, Tom, Dick, and Francis.
1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e. , Ben Jonson ], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. ”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio ), London: Will Stansby , published 1616 , →OCLC , (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals) :[I] kept my chamber a leash of days.
1662 , [Samuel Butler ], “ ”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. , London: John Martyn and Henry Herringman , , published 1678 , →OCLC ; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller , editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars , Cambridge: University Press , 1905 , →OCLC , canto 1:It had an odd promiscuous tone, / As if h' had talk'd three parts in one; / Which made some think, when he did gabble, / Th' had heard three labourers of Babel; / Or Cerberus himself pronounce / A leash of languages at once.
1874 , Alfred Tennyson , “Gareth and Lynette”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; V), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., , →OCLC , page 39 :An I could climb and lay my hand upon it, / Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings.
A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom .
( surfing ) A leg rope .
1980 February, Drew Kampion, “As Years Roll By (1970's Retrospective”, in Surfing , page 43 :Probably the idea was around before that, but the first photo of the leash in action was published that year
( prosody ) A kind of metrical construct in Skeltonics .
Derived terms
Translations
long cord for dogs
Afrikaans: leiband
Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: رِبَاط (ar) m ( ribāṭ )
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: шво́рка f ( švórka ) , павадо́к m ( pavadók ) , пры́вязь f ( prývjazʹ )
Bulgarian: каишка (bg) f ( kaiška )
Catalan: corretja (ca)
Chickasaw: ishtalakchi' , shtalakchi'
Chinese:
Mandarin: 皮帶 / 皮带 (zh) ( pídài ) , 紲 / 绁 (zh) ( xiè ) or 絏 / 绁 (zh) ( xiè )
Czech: vodítko (cs) n
Danish: hundesnor
Dutch: lijn (nl) f
Egyptian: (sšd m )
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: talutushihna (fi) , talutin (fi) , hihna (fi) , lieka (fi)
French: laisse (fr) f
Galician: trela (gl) f , correa (gl) f
Georgian: საბელი ( sabeli )
German: Leine (de) f , Hundeleine (de) f
Greek: λουρί (el) n ( lourí )
Ancient: κυνοῦχος m ( kunoûkhos )
Hebrew: רצועה להולכת כלב
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: póráz (hu)
Italian: guinzaglio (it) m
Japanese: 綱 (ja) ( つな, tsuna ) , 革紐 ( かわひも, kawahimo ) , リード (ja) ( rīdo )
Khmer: ខ្សែ (km) ( ksae )
Korean: 목줄 ( mokjul )
Luxembourgish: Léngt f
Macedonian: ре́мен m ( rémen ) , ре́менче n ( rémenče ) , ка́иш m ( káiš ) , по́водник m ( póvodnik ) , ла́нец m ( lánec )
Malay: cawak (ms)
Maori: taura here , pōtete
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Nepali: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian: leiebånd n , kobbel n , lenke (no) m or f
Occitan: estaca (oc) f , cordilha f
Persian: قلاده (fa) ( qallâde )
Polish: smycz (pl) f
Portuguese: trela (pt) f , guia (pt) f
Romanian: lesă (ro) f
Russian: поводо́к (ru) m ( povodók ) , при́вязь (ru) f ( prívjazʹ ) , сво́ра (ru) f ( svóra ) ( for borzoi dogs ) , по́вод (ru) m ( póvod )
Scottish Gaelic: iall f , lomhainn f
Serbo-Croatian: поводац m , povodac (sh) m
Slovak: vôdzka (sk) f
Spanish: correa (es) f
Swedish: koppel (sv) n
Thai: สายจูง ( sǎai-juung )
Tibetan: འདོགས་ཐག ( 'dogs thag )
Turkish: tasma (tr)
Ukrainian: повіде́ць m ( povidécʹ ) , поводо́к m ( povodók ) , шво́ра f ( švóra ) ( for borzoi dogs ) , при́в'язь f ( prývʺjazʹ )
Welsh: tennyn m
Yiddish: הונטרימען m ( huntrimen )
Verb
leash (third-person singular simple present leashes , present participle leashing , simple past and past participle leashed )
To fasten or secure with a leash.
( figuratively ) to curb , restrain
Antonyms
Translations
to fasten or secure with a leash
References
Anagrams
Hales , Heals , Sahel , Saleh , Selah , hales , halse , heals , selah , shale , sheal